Word: blur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mask; though it is only fair to admit that few actors could have done better with so exacting a part. The main trouble with the picture is its failure to transmute the superb language of the book into equivalent images. Beautiful but difficult quotations keep appearing through the blur of pictures, like old lines through a scratchy palimpsest, and even a moviegoer with a good religious education might be grateful for a resident theologian in the lobby...
...There is an anti-intellectualism widespread in America which tends to blur all distinctions except that of white and black . . . There is an attack, financially well supported, against our churches . . . The only source of this I will identify by name is that of the American Council of Christian Churches (see below), which can no longer be ignored when its lies and calumnies are picked up and used by Government agencies and others in this attack...
...best, the British in Africa seek slowly to guide what Kipling called their "new-caught, sullen peoples'' across the blur of centuries that divides them from the modern world. At worst, British settlers expect to live, at least until the deluge, off the sweat, tears and ignorance of African servitors...
Until 1945 Khrushchev lurked in the shadows, a mere name to Western diplomats. Then, year by year, in pictures of the Soviet leaders seated at their desks before the Supreme Soviet, his bullet head loomed larger-from a white blur on the packed backbenches to a big, pale face, edging close to Stalin, and now to Malenkov. Khrushchev's advance was silent, but it had the momentum...
...soloist possesses to a supreme degree one of the chief requirements for playing Romantic works with freedom and yet clarity; a sense of rhythmic propulsion. One can only be free of a strict meter when one controls it absolutely; Mr. Berman did. The innumerable arpeggios were not merely a blur of sound but a powerfully directed line...